I have the honour to transmit to you, from President Bush,
a list of proposed actions that the European Union might undertake
to help the United States in the international effort against
terrorism. This letter is in response to the request made by
Belgian Prime Minister Verhofstadt during the Summit meeting
in Washington on 27 September. The list includes suggestions
to intensify cooperation in the areas of terrorist financing,
law enforcement, non-proliferation, border controls, transport
security and multi-lateral/diplomatic support.

The US Government deeply appreciates the offer of the European
Union to work closely with us against the scourge of terrorism,
and hopes that this list will provide a good basis for futre
discussion and cooperation.

Sincerely,

James J Foster
Deputy Chief of Mission

Mr Romano Prodi,
President,
Commission of the European Communities,
Brussels

PROPOSALS FOR US-EU COUNTER-TERRORISM COOPERATION

Suppression of Terrorist Financing

- Share with the United States and among member and accession
states, through established financial, intelligence and law enforcement
channels, all possible information regarding financial activities
or accounts of terrorists.

- Expand focus of Financial Action Task Force (FATF), and
the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units to include financial
flows to terrorists.

- Ratify the UN Convention for the Suppression of the Financing
of Terrorism.

- Adopt draft EU Directive on prevention of the use of the
financial system for money laundering and the framework decision
on the execution in the EU of orders freezing assets or evidence
(the scope of which should be extended to terrorist related crimes).

- Block activities linked to terrorism within the framework
of the draft EU Directive on insider trading currently under
discussion in the EU Council.

- Reinforce exchange of information between financial intelligence
units in EU member states to enhance ability to take preventative
action against terrorism.

- Consider data protection issues in the context of law enforcement
and counterterrorism imperatives.

- Establish adequate capabilities for investigating terrorism
cases that involve the use of the internet.

- Revise draft privacy directives that call for mandatory
destruction to permit the retention of critical data for a reasonable
period.

Europol

- Make available to the United States all information, including
information on individuals, that Europol may have on relevant
terrorist cases, and susbsequently broaden such cooperation to
other criminal cases.

- Encourage exchanges of information at both the bilateral
and Europol level

Eurojust

- Share with U.S. authorities summaries of terrorism cases
that are within the Provisional Eurojust Docket and updates thereto.

Export control/Nonproliferation

- Ensure that EU aspirants set up and enforce effective export
control systems. (Cyprus and Malta are particularly problematic
transshipment states.)

- Improve detection and prosecution of front companies and
entities involved in the export or transshipment of sensitive
items to countries, programs, and end-users of concern, and block
related brokering activities.

- Put in place consistent catch-all controls to deny dual-use
equipment to end-users in countries that harbor terrorists.

- Coordinate more closely with the United States on export
control assistance to supplier countries, key transshipment states,
and countries in the former Soviet Union.

- Participate with the United States in a program to enhance
export and border controls in Central Asia.

- Increase EU assistance to Russia, the Newly Independent
States, and other at-risk states to help control, protect, and
account for sensitive chemical, biological, radiological, and
nuclear facilities and material.

- Increase EU voluntary contributions to the IAEA for its
nuclear safeguards and material protection programs.